Volume 7

This is the seventh volume in the 10 series. Based on verifiable clues, the series is tied to the Chinese collection of DC Comics' Smallville Season 11: the official continuation comic of the CW television series Smallville after its ten-season run, written by Bryan Q. Miller, one of the show's writers, and published by DC Comics as a digital-first series starting in 2012, with print editions collected in story arcs. The story picks up six months after the series finale: Clark Kent has officially put on the Superman suit, and while balancing his superhero identity, he continues to navigate Metropolis and Smallville alongside Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Oliver Queen (Green Arrow), and others, as the world enters the era of Superman's official debut. As the seventh volume, this book is a mid-series installment of the collection, carrying forward the main storyline from previous volumes, advancing character relationships and events through individual chapters, and continuing the series' themes of youthful growth, friendship, and responsibility. Due to source limitations, the specific chapters collected in this volume cannot be verified page by page; please refer to the actual table of contents. Readers may regard this volume as a transitional link in the twelve-volume series and read it in order to maintain narrative continuity.